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When Killer Cops Are Black, It’s Still White Supremacy
Well, it sure didn’t take long for the murder of the young black man, Tyre Nichols, by five black cops in Memphis to be labelled some form or other of white supremacy. But then you knew it would happen. It was just a question of how long it would take, five seconds or ten seconds. After all, if you can get away with labelling Larry Elder, a conservative black candidate for California governor, the “black face of white supremacy,” there’s nothing too preposterous for you to try and pass off on people.
Let’s stipulate right up front that there seems to be no justifiable reason for what those black cops did, but it is as certain as the next sunrise that white supremacy had nothing to do with it. But just try convincing Democrat Congresswoman of color, Cori Bush, for example, who said the following: “The mere presence of black officers does not stop policing from being a tool of white supremacy.” She also blathered about a “racist policing system rooted in enslavement” and “the violent racist architecture that underpins our entire criminal legal system.”
Again, all the assaulting cops were black.
You can hear this kind of stupid, neo-Marxist rhetoric all day long on MSNBC and a typical example includes the guest who said, “This is what it looks like when black officers internalize and align themselves with police culture, which itself is rooted in white supremacy.”
So, all policing is rooted in white supremacy, according to these geniuses. What about policing in, say, Uganda? Or Tanzania? Or Kenya? Or Nigeria? Or . . . ?
Well, yes, of course, because in their brainwashed, post-colonial mind-set, they are still tainted by historical white supremacist systems of oppression that cause people of color to be self-loathing and to turn on each other.
Or some such. The left can spew this kind of neo-Marxist claptrap until the cows come home – or until their beloved communities of color collapse into total anarchy.
What are these commentators really saying here?
Hey black people, you’re so stupid you don’t even know when you are the unwitting dupes of white supremacy. So you sign up to be cops thinking you’re doing something big, but you’re just ignorant tools of the systemic racist establishment.
Or some such.
I have an alternative theory about what caused this incident in Memphis.
Imagine you are a police officer in Memphis, a crime-ridden, majority-black city. All you see on the job, day in and day out, year after year, without let-up and without any apparent hope of future change, is violent black crime, mostly perpetrated against other blacks. Do you think that maybe that would have some kind of profound effect on you? I mean, is there a human being alive who could somehow maintain some pristine unbiased neutrality such that he wouldn’t cop an attitude about the people creating all the wanton crime, murder, and mayhem? Is there a human being alive who, while immersed in such conditions, wouldn’t think to himself, “Damn, man, I can’t help but notice that the overwhelming majority of people committing all this mayhem are young black men.”
In this particular case, it is still difficult to understand why these black cops overreacted so extremely when there didn’t appear to be any particular provocation. And there is universal agreement – a rare thing in a divided America – that those cops need to go down for this. But one thing is certain: it had nothing to do with “systems of white supremacy” or “systemic racism” or any other such divisive leftist rhetoric. Systemic racism was dismantled long ago by every institution in the country and was replaced by what amounts to a religious fervor for the promotion of “diversity” with blacks at the top, followed by every other conceivable minority and/or victim group. White supremacy and systemic racism are, for all intents and purposes, as dead as the dodo bird.
It is far more likely that what those black cops did has something to do with their constant immersion in and involvement with wildly disproportionate black crime. And that wildly disproportionate black crime has, as we all know, everything to do with the absence of black fathers in black homes, which has absolutely nothing to do with white supremacy. How do we know that? Because pre-civil rights, when there actually was white supremacy and racial segregation and oppression, far more black families had fathers in the home.
In fact, just spitballin’ here, but maybe these cops were from fatherless homes themselves and, as a result, were no angels, but typical of the pathological results of whole communities of fatherless homes. Jason Whitlock, a black Christian conservative commentator, seemed to be saying something to that effect when he appeared on Tucker Carlson to speak about the Memphis incident:
“This is a story about young black men and their inability to treat each other in a humane way. . . It was a group of young black men, five-on-one. It looked like gang violence to me.” Whitlock concluded that this state of affairs results from the breakdown of the black family and the lack of male authority figures in the homes.
Ironically, despite the godlessness and the left-leaning nature of the psychological profession, you won’t find one of its studies that has come to a different conclusion regarding fatherless homes. That’s the real problem, not imaginary white supremacy.
And maybe, because cops have been so demonized and hamstrung recently, it has become even harder to find good people willing to do the job. Police departments are forced to settle for those who otherwise would have been rejected.
But people like Cori Bush, who see everything through white supremacy-colored glasses, are either incapable or unwilling to add two plus two and come up with four. Instead, through their tortured racialist rationalizations, they’ll come up with 962 and a half – anything but four. Then they’ll recommend that the police be defunded, replaced by social workers, or abolished, even as inadequately policed communities of color descend into anarchy.
It’s all so invincibly stupid, destructive, and inexcusable.
By the way, guess who’s coming to Biden’s State of the Union speech? Tyre Nichols’ parents. Count on Biden and his speech writers turning those parents’ personal tragedy into something repulsive and totally divorced from all reality. Whatever the particulars of this murder in Memphis might be, communities of largely fatherless homes are ultimately at the root of the problem, not white supremacy. And since LBJ’s Great Society, nothing has done more to decimate the black family than Democrat policies.
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I bet they are saying “hey white Lefties….” There is a lot of money to made off of white Lefties.
I agree that fixing families attacks the root cause. But that will take a while to fix. In the meantime, we have policing based on well-behaved citizens in mutual-respect with well-behaved cops, which is not the case these days.
Larry Elder’s high school yearbook photo is pretty awesome:
Surely by now some American professor has written a paper explaining how white supremacy was the driver of Imperial Japan being so utterly cruel to its neighbors.
And all the tyranny in China is a result of white colonialism.
I guess I’ll go to wikipedia and see if I can find out exactly what “white supremacy” is. Now, it seems to me to be a belief in the values expressed in the Declaration and the Bill of Rights. If you support and believe in those, maybe you’re a white supremacist regardless of skin color or the slant of your eyes.
The definition doesn’t matter.
The only purpose is to create racial division and unrest. Because the dems believe that helps win elections.
I still don’t understand why almost all of you seem to jump on the bandwagon of the anti-cop agenda, agreeing that it was “murder” or some such.
This guy repeatedly resisted arrest. The cops did not use force that was obviously deadly, or even expected to be deadly. They were rough with him, as he fought them. He ended up dying, reportedly from his injuries, a couple of days later. We don’t even know whether the cause of death report is true.
Notice the quote marks around “culture”. Come on, all God’s children got a culture, but they aren’t all equal. I guess saying that makes me a “white supremacist”.
There’s a great scene in Manhunter when Will Graham is questioning Hannibal Lecter. Lecter observes that Will must think he’s pretty smart, certainly smarter than Lecter because after all, Will caught him.
”But Doctor Lecter, you had a disadvantage.”
”Oh, really? And what is that?”
”You’re insane.”
You have to remember that these people are insane.
With all there is to notice and experience in in this marvelous world, all of the possibilities it holds, all of the possible explanations there are for all the phenomena happening all around us every day, these people are trapped in an endless little side-loop called racial grievance.
They just go round and round, stuck eternally in that loop. They have lost the capacity to experience the actual world out here with the rest of us.
They deserve our pity, maybe our prayers. But certainly not our time, or our engagement in their sad fixation.
Maybe this sort of thing:
This isn’t really a good definition. Segregation of whites is not the same as supremacy.
I didn’t see a good definition anywhere, but this was the broadest. It is reasonable to think that someone who believes in the superiority of the Caucasian race would want to live in a “whites-only society”.
Segregation is reasonable to a white supremacist but it doesn’t count as the single criterion for describing it. Wanting to live in a segregated community does not mean that members of that community think they are superior to every other race. Just as wanting one’s race to stay in existence doesn’t either.
In the same way, some black call or segregation and separation, but that doesn’t mean they think themselves superior, wither, just different.
I could find no definition that was limited to a single criterion. The paragraph I quoted didn’t really claim to be a definition. It lists characteristics and allows the reader to choose his own definition.
I think it’s part of the intentional blurring of distinctions among words. When I was a kid back in the Second Age of Middle Earth, the dictionary had “racism”, “bigotry”, and “prejudice”. Three words; three meanings. But SFBs such as Spike Lee started claiming that blacks couldn’t be racist because they didn’t have the power to be. WTAF was he talking about? It doesn’t require power to think you’re superior to other races. It does require power to oppress them. Maybe that’s where “structural racism” comes into the minds of people such as Lee. Anyway, Lee went on to say that, of course, blacks could be bigoted. No kidding?
From the videos, it almost looks as if Nichols was specifically targeted, but I dunno. We’ll see what comes out in the trial.
Yabbut, “Whiteness” is not itself a culture, and caucasians do not have a single culture. One’s culture is a stew made out of one’s ethnic and historical background, economic status, geography, religion, education, language, etc. etc.
True, but for a while, America — The U. S. part of it — was largely Caucasian and the resulting American culture was dominated by white attitudes. But do you think that anyone hung up on “white supremacy” gives a damn about the cultural differences between U. S. citizens of Norwegian descent vs those of Greek or Italian descent? Not as far as I can tell. We’re all just white to them.
Is it the cops part that make these folk white? Many cities have many blacks kill other blacks. I was told that was black crime, will that too become white crime.
Are there really black Irish?
You know most of my life I’ve been grateful and pleased and humbled by being a white American man, born to a middle income family, in this century. It’s been great, and more than I deserved, given what most of the world has lived through.
Hey, it’s a rough job, but someone has to do it! :-)
We’ve heard that black cops have “internalized” the tenets of white supremacy. Have become the “black face of white supremacy”. This won’t end well.
The only thing I am sure of is if the 5 black cops killed a person in this same event but that man was white most the country would not even hear about this issue nor the cops be jailed.
True. No doubt.
Nice phrase.
Being critical of these particular cops is not the same as being anti-cop. Just as someone can be critical of pedophile priests and their enablers without being anti-Catholic.
At least I haven’t seen anyone theorize that Tyre Nichols actually died from being vaccinated against Covid. That seems to be brought up almost every time someone under 75 dies these days.
I blame Marx.
The solution to the problem of black crime is to give poor blacks who breed without devoted fathers sex robots.
Yes, I suppose I was being overly pedantic (most pedantry is good). I don’t really have an argument. The words you quoted said white supremacy is characterized by “one or more of the following…” and I was pointing out that regarding segregation, taking just that one attribute is not supremacy.
I’m not sure who all edits wikipedia (I’m told there are millions) but maybe it’s better to go to actual white supremacists (and I suspect that they exist) and ask them. Sort of like reading Mussolini on fascism.
The basic reason that I have difficulty with wiki’s characterization of white supremacy is that it is — in my reading and experience — that the only people who are using the term are those decrying it; and, yes, the definition is vague, because they are using it indiscriminately to describe the injustice of the moment.
As a kid in the sixties there were three basic “races”: Caucasoid, Mongoloid (Oriental) and Negroid. Today we have the monumentally stupid classification “Asian and Pacific Islander” which by definition spans from west Russia and the Near East through India and the orient to the South Pacific, of which if you’ve ever met them in their native islands are not “Asian” at all. And then there’s the nearly as stupid Hispanic-white and Hispanic-non-white.
East Indians and Semites are, as far as I’ve been informed, actually Caucasian or White, but who knows, or more accurately, who cares?
I’ve digressed, but those who care are those want to divide humanity into convenient, purposeful, superficial and stereotypical groups. And those who decry white supremacy are the only ones defining it.
Today, white supremacy seems to be more of a psychological dysfunction of those who oppose it. And this sounds like a classic straw man to me.
It’s not hard to find data on police killings by race of the victim, but I spent a whole two minutes looking for police killings by race of the shooter and came up empty. Anybody?